“We need to shift funding decisions from which orgs write the best proposal and have the best “capacity” and start considering factors such as do at least half their board members and the majority of their senior staff come from the communities they’re serving.” Important article about Funders’ Role in Protecting Marginalized Communities During the […]
Category Archives: Awareness
Our Land, Our Health, Our Economy – In the Hands of Oil Industry
This is not the water we want to give our kids to drink. It’s not the condition of the Earth we want to leave them to try and inhabit. This is greed and addiction and too many of us who are still too weak to face the oil dependencies we have and not yet courageous […]
White Supremacy is a Racial Hierarchy
Quotes from Desiree Adaway: “White supremacy refers to a racial hierarchy in which whiteness sits at the very tippy top. This country was founded and built upon this system—legally, culturally, economically, and politically—of white male upper class supremacy. We want to believe that it only reflects extreme images of terrorist organizations like KKK members […]
Segregated Schools and Inequality in Funding Is Destroying Us
From The Conversation I’m Tired of Not Having by 2016 National Teacher of the Year Finalist “As a nation, we’re nibbling around the edges with accountability measures and other reforms, but we’re ignoring the immutable core issue: much of white and wealthy America is perfectly happy with segregated schools and inequity in funding. We have […]
Addressing Institutional Racism Or Not…
I highly encourage you to read this article by Korbett Mosesly. Especially if you work at a non-profit or organization that has a majority White leadership and cares about addressing racism. 10 Ways to Practice Institutional Racism at Your Non-Profit Organization Maintain White Leadership Frame the issues & lead the strategies for people of color. […]
Don’t let anyone keep us from loving each other in this F.U.W.
History Lesson: Using Race to Divide and Conquer
The poor are fighting for the benefit of the wealthy… and don’t realize it. Poor white folks getting suckered again and again, standing up for ideologies that actually go against their best interest and help protect the wealthy elite. Such as folks who may be losing their extended medicaid because of the new healthcare reform. […]